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so we pushed down to 60,000 using this table So that's where we started It is a start and we're happy to adjust it, but we think 60,000 is appropriate Chair Ritter So my question was a little higher level All of these, from energy to government to educational, how did we come up with all of the broader categories'? Did this come off of a template that Open Counter created for us or is it a template we created based on the past history of use'? Beaudin Shweta and Adam and I appreciate Mr Hirst's comment about my involvement, but really this is an effort that we've been looking at best practices, and it's the "Royal We" Everyone that's still in the room here tonight has been looking at best practices for the zoning code so this is an effort that's usually undertaken with consultants and what we thought is, let's go out and look at the latest and greatest examples of zoning code updates that have been done and Shweta did that legwork to make sure we were starting with a framework that's commonly used and successfully used in other jurisdictions So the broader classifications you see here and some of the grouping that's been done as well as some of the definitions we included are all coming from what we would call best practices for zoning Commissioner Nagler Could I ask a similar question On the specific listing of uses under the broad categories, does that reflect what the community actually is'? Or, does it reflect sort of a general template of categories that appear in zoning ordinances How did you come up with that particular detailed list under the broad categories'? Beaudin It's really all of the above It's taking what we see in Pleasanton and it's consolidating into terms that are commonly used in cities to regulate land use And so, what we try to do is create broad enough categories to have an umbrella over the range of uses we expect to see in Pleasanton without being overly broad because we didn't want to kind of invite new permitted uses without thinking them through And so, do you want to add to that Adam or Shweta' Weinstein Yeah, I mean, Shweta talked a little bit about some deletions like the famous one is Blacksmith, right'? So we're getting rid of blacksmith as a specific use but in fact that is actually now encompassed under a different or broader category It would be under the industrial category, so it's not like we're getting rid of blacksmith uses or other uses that were struck from the list, we're just making this list a lot simpler in the form of this table Beaudin And actually I say this in a lot of presentations It was actually difficult because we had a blacksmith in town You know there are probably folks who would really appreciate that and metal work and things like that Hirst We had hitching posts until the 70's Commissioner Allen Okay, so where are we'? Commissioner Brown We're still on retail Chair Ritter Do we want to just go through each one'? EXCERPT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 14 of 25